Speaker 1: Today on Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren, we continue
Speaker 1: in our riveting journey through the series The Invisible War.
Speaker 1: In it will explore the unseen world of good and
Speaker 1: evil and see how it impacts our day to day existence.
Speaker 1: Join us for eye opening biblical insights into the spiritual
Speaker 1: dimensions that influence our lives in ways we never imagined.
Speaker 1: Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part two of
Speaker 1: a message called why is life in this world so hard?
Speaker 2: Number two? The second damage that it's done is physical
Speaker 2: decay and death. Physical decay and death. Now, there was
Speaker 2: no death on this planet until Sin entered the world.
Speaker 2: There was no decay on this planet. Until Sin entered
Speaker 2: the world. It was perfect, it was paradise. But now
Speaker 2: because Sin is ented the world, there is decay and death.
Speaker 2: And Ecclesiastes chapter eight says no one can control the
Speaker 2: wind or stop his own death. Now we know that
Speaker 2: death is inevitable, but we sure try to stop it,
Speaker 2: and we go to great links to postpone the decay too,
Speaker 2: oil of olay, lotions and potions and makeup and botox
Speaker 2: and surgeries. What are we trying to do to delay
Speaker 2: the decay? That's what we're trying to do delay the decay.
Speaker 2: Now you're gonna die one day. I'm sorry you're going
Speaker 2: to But actually i'll tell you in a minute why
Speaker 2: that's good news, because you don't want to live on
Speaker 2: an imperfect planet. But in the meantime, I hate tell
Speaker 2: you this. You are declining. Okay, you are declining. It's
Speaker 2: called aging. The Bible says on two Corinthians, chapter four,
Speaker 2: our physical body is becoming older and weaker. Would any
Speaker 2: of you like to give a testimony on this verse
Speaker 2: a personal life experience? The fact is, you know, over time,
Speaker 2: parts of your body start the sag. Many of us men,
Speaker 2: we get furniture problems, Our chest drops into our drawers.
Speaker 2: Many of you. Your teeth shine like stars, they come
Speaker 2: out at night. Okay, Now here's how you know if
Speaker 2: you're aging, if you're getting older. When you have to
Speaker 2: bend over to pick something up, you go, is there
Speaker 2: anything else I can do while I'm down here? You
Speaker 2: don't want to waste the effort? Okay, Okay. The truth
Speaker 2: is we all are aging. By the way, guys, just
Speaker 2: give you a little tip as a husband. When a
Speaker 2: woman tells you her age, always always act surprised. Okay,
Speaker 2: just a little tip, give you a little good help.
Speaker 2: And by the way, for you guys, when you men,
Speaker 2: don't tell people you're over the hill, say I'm playing
Speaker 2: the back nine. Okay, that's what you're doing. I'm just
Speaker 2: playing the back nine. All right, that's what I'm doing. Now.
Speaker 2: Solomon is so brutally honest about decay and death and
Speaker 2: how we are all aging. It's actually comical. Let me
Speaker 2: read you this passage out of Ecclesiastes. Here on the screen,
Speaker 2: he's defining aging. He says, your limbs will tremble with age,
Speaker 2: and your strong legs will grow weak. Your teeth will
Speaker 2: be too few to do their work, and you'll be
Speaker 2: blind too. And when your teeth are gone, keep your
Speaker 2: lips tightly closed when you eat. Just let advice for
Speaker 2: those of you living in rest homes. All right, okay, Now,
Speaker 2: even the chirping of birds will wake you up. It
Speaker 2: just it all irritates you. You're so sensitive, and you
Speaker 2: know you can't get to sleep. But you yourself will
Speaker 2: be death and tuneless with a quavering voice. And then
Speaker 2: it says you'll be white haired and withered, dragging along
Speaker 2: without any sexual desire. You'll be standing at death's door,
Speaker 2: and as you near your everlasting home, the mourners will
Speaker 2: walk along the streets. Thank you everybody. That's the end
Speaker 2: of my sermon today. God bless you. Glad you came, Hope,
Speaker 2: that was a real inspiration. Really cheered you up for
Speaker 2: the week. Okay, really gave you a lot of input.
Speaker 2: And you feel good, Go home, God bless you. No, now,
Speaker 2: why is all that happening? Because sin broke everything, including
Speaker 2: your DNA. You know, I read this weekend in the newspaper.
Speaker 2: It was a big article. It said, scientists have now
Speaker 2: concluded that the the universe had a beginning and will
Speaker 2: have an end. Duh. Actually, did you know that for
Speaker 2: about one hundred and fifty years, we didn't believe that.
Speaker 2: You know, science is often wrong, and for one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty years, scientists actually thought the universe was eternal,
Speaker 2: that it had always existed, and that the universe will
Speaker 2: always exist in the future. We now know, from Einstein's
Speaker 2: theories and you know he equals MC squared and all
Speaker 2: these other things, that the universe had a beginning and
Speaker 2: we'll definitely have an end. Well, anybody reads the Bible
Speaker 2: knows that I mean, they call it the big Bang.
Speaker 2: But wherever you've got a big bang, you've got a
Speaker 2: big banger. Okay, nobody, no scientist believes in spontaneous generation.
Speaker 2: The stuff just happens out of nothing, that we're just
Speaker 2: sitting here. In a million years, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the watch is going to show up. I mean, Sture
Speaker 2: exploded that myth in eighteen sixty five and proved that
Speaker 2: spontaneous generation does not happen. That things just don't happen
Speaker 2: out of nothing. There is a cause behind that. Now,
Speaker 2: in physics, this is called the law of entropy. Let
Speaker 2: me show you a phrase. Here, an equation here on
Speaker 2: the screen. Everybody's heard. It equals mc squared. You know
Speaker 2: what this is. Delta S equals q slash t. You know,
Speaker 2: q being heat heat absorbed in t being the temperature
Speaker 2: of the surrounding. Any engineer note this is a very
Speaker 2: famous equation. This is the second law of thermodynamics. It
Speaker 2: is not a theory, It is a law. And the
Speaker 2: second law of thermodynamics is the law of entropy that
Speaker 2: explains that everything in the universe is irreversibly declaying, decaying
Speaker 2: into disorder. That energy seeks its simplest state. It always does.
Speaker 2: It doesn't get more complex energy. He always looks for
Speaker 2: the simplest state. So that means matter is always degrading
Speaker 2: and that energy is always dispersing. Chemicals do not naturally
Speaker 2: become more complex. Chemicals, by their nature, tend to break
Speaker 2: down into smaller and smaller elements. Energy, by its nature,
Speaker 2: does not tend to become more complex. Energy, by its nature,
Speaker 2: tends to fizzle out and seek its lowest. We know
Speaker 2: that all of the stars are burning out. We know
Speaker 2: that the sun is burning out. This is the law
Speaker 2: of entropy, the second law of thermodynamics that things do
Speaker 2: not improve, they are decaying. Things do not get more complex,
Speaker 2: they get simpler. It is not a theory, it is
Speaker 2: a law. Every physicist knows the law of the second
Speaker 2: law of thermodynamics. Now there's one problem with it. You
Speaker 2: can't believe in the law of thermodynamics and believe in evolution,
Speaker 2: because evolution says the exact opposite. Evolution says that chemicals
Speaker 2: naturally left on their own, will become more complex, and
Speaker 2: that energy on its own will become more complex. When
Speaker 2: everything in the universe says the exact opposite, energy is
Speaker 2: declining matter is decaying. That's not a theory, that's a law.
Speaker 2: That's the equation I just put on the descript and
Speaker 2: every physicists know that. And so you really have to
Speaker 2: live with a dual alignment to believe in the second
Speaker 2: law of thermodynamics and be an evolutionist, because they do
Speaker 2: not match. They are self contradictory. Now, I wish I
Speaker 2: had time to get into that, but I won't. One
Speaker 2: Corinthians fifteen twenty two says this, everyone dies because all
Speaker 2: of us are related to Adam the first man. Now
Speaker 2: that's the bad news. But actually there's some good news
Speaker 2: in this. I'm glad I'm not going to live forever
Speaker 2: on this planet, because to live on this planet, have
Speaker 2: to live on this planet forever with rape and molestation
Speaker 2: and corruption and sin and sorrow and sadness and grief
Speaker 2: and power plays and people misusing each other and abusing
Speaker 2: each other. That to me would be hell. And God
Speaker 2: doesn't want you to live forever on this planet. He
Speaker 2: wants you to live forever, but he wants you to
Speaker 2: live forever in a perfect place, not on a planet
Speaker 2: that has been broken by sin. If you lived here,
Speaker 2: you're going to have sorrow and sadness the rest of
Speaker 2: your life and disappointment. So he says, yeah, I want
Speaker 2: you to live forever. I just don't want you to
Speaker 2: living on that place forever. I want you to live
Speaker 2: with me in heaven forever. Here's what the Bible says.
Speaker 2: Here's the good news one Corinthians fifteen. On the screen.
Speaker 2: Our earthly bodies, which die and decay, are different from
Speaker 2: the bodies will have in heaven, but they'll never die now.
Speaker 2: The bodies we have now embarrass us. For some of us,
Speaker 2: we're very embarrassed by the bodies we have now, for
Speaker 2: they become sick and they die, but they will be
Speaker 2: full of glory when we come back to life again. Yes,
Speaker 2: they're weak dying bodies now, but when we live again,
Speaker 2: they will be full of strength. That's the good news.
Speaker 2: Number three. The third damage. There's natural disasters and deformities,
Speaker 2: physical decay and death. The third damage is the area
Speaker 2: of your emotions and sin causes emotional distress and disappointment.
Speaker 2: Emotional distress and disappointment. Solomon writes a lot about this
Speaker 2: in Ecclesiastes, said, you know, I tried everything, nothing worked.
Speaker 2: It's all meaningless it's all one big disappointment. Ecclesiastes one,
Speaker 2: fourteen and fifteen. Everything under the sun is meaningless. It's
Speaker 2: a big disappointment. It's unfulfilling, like chasing the wind. What
Speaker 2: is wrong cannot be righted, and what is missing cannot
Speaker 2: be recovered. What is he saying in this verse? He's
Speaker 2: saying that as a human being, it seems a little
Speaker 2: pointless because I cannot change the path, and I cannot
Speaker 2: control the future. What's past is past. All the stuff
Speaker 2: that I've done that was wrong, I can't undo it.
Speaker 2: I can't unscramble an egg. All the stuff that was
Speaker 2: done wrong to me, I can undo that. I can't
Speaker 2: unscramble an egg. It's pointless. Can't change the past, and
Speaker 2: I cannot control the future. You cannot control the things
Speaker 2: that are going to happen to you. There's going to
Speaker 2: happen a lot that's going to happen to you in
Speaker 2: your life that you have zero control over. In fact,
Speaker 2: most of the important things in your life you had
Speaker 2: no control over, like where you would be born, who
Speaker 2: you were born to, what your natural gifts were, where
Speaker 2: you live, you know where you were born to live,
Speaker 2: when you were born where you're gonna when you die.
Speaker 2: You don't know all of that. Those are things that
Speaker 2: are out of your control. And God is saying to you,
Speaker 2: you could control some things, but you can't control most
Speaker 2: of the things in your life. And he says that
Speaker 2: the world cannot be fixed by human effort alone. Now,
Speaker 2: can we go out and do good in the world? Yes?
Speaker 2: Should we? Yes? Should we relieve pain? Of course, that's
Speaker 2: why we do the peace Plan. But when we send
Speaker 2: people out on peace plants like to relief, like when
Speaker 2: we do relief in the tsunami or the katrina, or
Speaker 2: the Pakistan earthquake or Japan earthquake, we send people to
Speaker 2: that now Norway, all these different disasters and things. We
Speaker 2: often send them in t shirts that says we came
Speaker 2: to serve, not to solve, because we can't solve all
Speaker 2: the world's problems. It's irreparably broken. What we do is
Speaker 2: go to relieve hurt, to heal people, to help them
Speaker 2: make it through. But we're not kidding ourselves. We're not
Speaker 2: going to bring the Kingdom in on earth. This is
Speaker 2: not Heaven. Heaven is there and we are here, and
Speaker 2: our ultimate job is to get people into the perfect place.
Speaker 2: Not try to make the world a perfect place. Relieve pain, yes,
Speaker 2: make it better, yes, expect it to be perfect. No,
Speaker 2: because he said it can't be done. It isn't going
Speaker 2: to happen. And the damage is too deep for repair. Now,
Speaker 2: because that damage is so deep, you get stressed out.
Speaker 2: You get stressed out because things don't work right in
Speaker 2: your life and you don't have enough time to get
Speaker 2: everything done you need to do, and things get in
Speaker 2: your way, and all of a sudden you have delays
Speaker 2: and difficulties and dead ends and all these things. And
Speaker 2: not only that, you have disappointments. You ever plan for
Speaker 2: a big event and you just thought, man, this is
Speaker 2: going to be so great, and then after the event
Speaker 2: you go that was it, and you were really disappointed.
Speaker 2: You have been to concerts like that, you have been
Speaker 2: to things that were built up. That's life. The Bible
Speaker 2: says in job they are distressed because they've been confident,
Speaker 2: but when they arrived only to be disappointed. And you
Speaker 2: felt that the anticipation of Christmas is always better than Christmas. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's it nowhere presence, It's just that way. You plan
Speaker 2: a great vacation and in your mind you're thinking about
Speaker 2: what you're going to do out there in South Pacific,
Speaker 2: and you just dream how great it is going to be,
Speaker 2: and then you get there and they got mosquitoes, okay,
Speaker 2: or you play. I know people who spend an entire
Speaker 2: year planning for a wedding and then it's over in
Speaker 2: an hour. They go, that's it. I planned a year
Speaker 2: and the wedding is over in an hour. I know
Speaker 2: some girls who've spent their lives dreaming their entire lives
Speaker 2: of their wedding day. It is inevitable they're going to
Speaker 2: be disappointed because you cannot compete with your imagination in
Speaker 2: real life. And the fact is, human beings have an
Speaker 2: amazing ability to overestimate how happy we're going to be
Speaker 2: with a person with an event or with a possession.
Speaker 2: We always overestimate how happy it's going to make us.
Speaker 2: If I could just get that car, I'm going to
Speaker 2: be happy the rest of my life. And then you
Speaker 2: get it and you're happy for a while, But in
Speaker 2: a while you're not happy anymore. Why because it's the
Speaker 2: same old car. And you think, if I could just
Speaker 2: get that dress, if I could just get that piece
Speaker 2: of art, then I would be so happy. And when
Speaker 2: you get it, you are so happy for a while,
Speaker 2: but then after a while you're not happy anymore. You
Speaker 2: know why, because people change and thinks don't. Things don't change,
Speaker 2: so we get bored with them. That's why you have
Speaker 2: to do a thing called redecoration, because you get bored
Speaker 2: and pretty soon you're disappointed with that which you thought
Speaker 2: was so cool in the first place. We always overestimate.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just wonder. I'm not going to ask
Speaker 2: you to raise your hands. How many unrealistically thought that
Speaker 2: if when you got married, it was going to make
Speaker 2: you supremely happy for the rest of your life. Now,
Speaker 2: if you think, man, if I could just get married,
Speaker 2: I will really, really, really be happy. You just need
Speaker 2: to talk to somebody who's married. Okay. Now, when you
Speaker 2: expect your wife or your husband to meet needs that
Speaker 2: only God can meet in your life, you're not only
Speaker 2: setting yourself up for major disappointment, you were setting them
Speaker 2: self up for failure. It's not fair. It's not fair
Speaker 2: for you to expect your husband to meet all your needs.
Speaker 2: He can't. It's not fair for you to expect your
Speaker 2: wife to meet all your needs she can't. God never
Speaker 2: meant it that way, you have needs in your life
Speaker 2: that only God can meet, and you're going to be
Speaker 2: severely disappointed if you think your boyfriend is going to
Speaker 2: make you happy the rest of your life, or if
Speaker 2: you're a girlfriend or anybody else. The truth is, if
Speaker 2: we're honest, we're not just disappointed with events that happen
Speaker 2: in our lives, and we're not just disappointed with people
Speaker 2: in our lives, and we're not just disappointed with possessions
Speaker 2: in our lives. But if the truth were known, we're
Speaker 2: disappointed with ourselves because we think. You know, I thought
Speaker 2: by this time in life, i'd be better. I didn't
Speaker 2: think i'd still be struggling with these particular sins. I
Speaker 2: thought by this point in life, i'd be a lot
Speaker 2: more financially secure. I thought by this point in life,
Speaker 2: I'd have my career on track. I thought by this
Speaker 2: point in life we'd have kids. I thought by this
Speaker 2: point in life, i'd be married. I thought by And
Speaker 2: you're actually disappointed in yourself. Why? Because this is not heaven.
Speaker 2: Everything on the planet is broken, nothing works perfectly.
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